The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-24
HOW TO BECOME PLUMP.
ADVICE TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO
INCREASE THEIR WEIGHT.
Proper Food and Drink breathing
Fresh Air aud Taking Warm
Baths-Modcrate Exercise.

Fresh Air aud Taking warm
Baths-Modcrate Exercise.
Henry T. Finck gives in the New York
Epoch the following rules whereby lean
people may become plump;
a. Eating and drinking. "Every
woman who is thin would like to be
stouter," says Brillat- -Savarin in his
fragmentary chapter "On Leanness, "
from which, however, the following SEN
tence is worth citing: 'NIen fatten sheep,
calves, oxen, poultry, carp, crayfish,
oysters; and hence | derive the general
maxim: Whatever eats can be fattened,
provided the food is well and suitably
chosen. -
The famous Mr.. Banting, who reduced
his weight by more than fifty pounds in
one year, found that sugar was the most
fattening thing he could cat. Hence, to
increase your weight eat cakes, puddingS
syrup, honey, candy and pastry, always
taking care that it be crisp and digcsti-
bic, tor indigestible food is a chief cause
of leanness. New England piecrust is
probably responsible for the appearance
of the typical gaunt Yankee. Other fat
tening articles of food are tender lamb,
salmon and cells, milk and cream, corn,
bread and butter, and those vegetables
which grow underground and of which
sugar is made-beets, turnips, etc.
Boiled or baked potatoes, mashed on the
plate and seasoned with salt and fresh
butter, make delicious dish, rapidly
fattenng Eat often and very slowly,
for it is not the quantity that is eaten but
the amount that is thoroughly digested
that nouishes the system and rounds the
bodily contour.
Bismarck's private physician, DR..
Schwenninger, owes his international
reputation to his success in diminishing
the Chancellor's weight The secret of
his method is never to allow his patient
TO drink with his meals, or if he does
drink to do so very sparingly. Hence
follows the converse rule, that il you
covet stoutness you should drink freely
with your meals, always, however, in
such way as not to interfere with the
digestive processes. That is, you should
never drink while you have food in the
mouth. for the food ought to be
moistened by the saliva alone. Ice
water, too, should be always avoided. 1t
chills the stomach and is the cause of
three-fourths of the indigestion and CON
scquent leanness prevalent in this
country.
Mountain tourists know that ice water
never quenches the thirst. Yet we con-
stantly spoil our water by putting in ice.
The ice should never be allowed to come
in contact with the water we drink, but
only with the outside of the pitcher. In
this way we avoid also the dangers from
microbes hidden in impure ice.
(2) Breathing and Bathing. Air is
food, as much as beef, the only differ
ence being that beef is assimilated in the
stomach, air in the lungs. Hence if you
wish to be plump, become an dir-glutton.
Breathe all the fresh air you can get, and
avoid foul, stuffy air, especially at night,
as you would putrid meat. Always
breathe through the nose, and cultivate
the habit of slowly filling your lungs
with twice as much air as you commonly
inhale, exhaling it again as slowly. This
purities the blood and stimulates the ap-
petite. Frequent warm baths before re-
tiring, or cold sponge baths in the
morning, followed by brisk friction with
a coarse towel, have the same effect.
(3.) Rest. Exercise is commonly pre-
scribed as method of reducing ones
weight, and brisk and long-continucd
exercise does have this effect. But
moderate exercise is an antidote against
leanness, because it stimulates the ap-
petite, and thus more than atones for
the loss following muscular movement.
Besides, if exercise is altogether avoided,
there Is danger of losing grace and sym
-ncTy.
Brain-rest is espcc1alfy Indicated in
the case of those who object to leanness.
Moderate brain exercise is, indeed, essen
tial to perfect health, but excess should
be carefully avoided Emotional excite
ment and worry are fatal to the chances
of becoming plump and pretty. If an
annoying thought haunts you, forcibly
Tx your attention on something else.
Above all, never allow thoughts to tor
ment you after retiring, and thus to pass
disasrecSbly into your dreams. Eight
hours of dreamless sleep, in a well-ven-
tilated room, form the most potent cos
metic known to man or woman-the
'traightest road to plumpness and beauty.